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Develan nuevo Porsche 911 GT3 RS en Puerto Rico

San Juan, jueves 24 de agosto de 2023 – Porsche Center Puerto Rico, concesionario e importador exclusivo de autos deportivos Porsche en la isla, celebró hoy el lanzamiento del 911 GT3 RS – considerado una verdadera obra maestra de la ingeniería, el diseño y el desempeño automotriz – durante un evento para la prensa especializada. “El nuevo 911 GT3 RS es un testimonio del compromiso de Porsche…

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The Story of Hot Wheels: Casting a Legend

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Its A Victory For Tresor Attempto Racing Audi

Tresor Attempto Racing Audi celebrated a victory in the 100th edition of the Spa 24 Hours with multiple international wins.

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The Flying Dutchman and the Penn Yan Express

By Jonathan Monfiletto

Toward the end of October, Outlaw Speedway – the four-tenths-of-a-mile clay racetrack on the outskirts of downtown Dundee – will host the Hoag Memorial Weekend, in honor of legendary racer Donald “Dutch” Hoag and his son Dean, who owned and operated the speedway for about a decade under the name Black Rock Speedway. At that point in the year, area racetracks – dirt and paved alike – will have capped their seasons and crowned their champions, and the fanfare of Super DIRT Week at Oswego Speedway will have taken place the week before. Yet, there will be at least one more weekend of action on the track in the Finger Lakes region.

While the Hoag Memorial Weekend honors in part the legendary racer – who was nicknamed The Flying Dutchman, even though he already had a nickname – it seems unlikely that Dutch Hoag ever spent much time racing at what was called Dundee Speedway during his heyday behind the wheel. In my research, the only reference I could find to Hoag competing at Dundee was in August 1958 when he filled in for Glenn Reiners – then the track points leader and a Dundee Speedway legend – after Reiners suffered broken ribs and other injuries in a crash at Waterloo Speedway.

Nevertheless, what began as the Dutch Hoag National Open Weekend started when Hoag was still alive and during his son’s ownership of the track. The name appears to derive from the National Open at Pennsylvania’s Langhorne Speedway. Hoag won the prestigious event five times – three times on a dirt surface in 1956, 1960, and 1963 and twice on an asphalt surface in 1967 and 1968 – and is the only driver to have won the event on the two surfaces. Dutch died in 2016 at age 89 and Dean – a legendary racer in his own right – died in 2023 at age 70, and now the Hoag Memorial Weekend carries on in their memories.

Born November 2, 1926 in Cohocton, Steuben County, Hoag lived in Naples, Ontario County with his family at least by the time he turned 18 and registered for the draft during World War II. Supposedly, a local milkman in Cohocton gave the tongue-tied young boy the nickname Dutch. Ironically, Hoag never took an interest in his father’s trucking business and wasn’t interested in automobiles or mechanics. When he joined the Army and worked in a motor pool during World War II, his service spent repairing vehicles apparently sparked his passion.

According to an article by Gary Spaid on RaceNY.com, Hoag began racing in 1949, the year Naples Speedway opened in his then-hometown. According to Hoag’s biography on HistoricRacing.com, he bought a racecar for $175 and towed it to the track on a chain. Either later that year or the following year, he won his first feature race at a racetrack in Corning.

The earliest newspaper reference I could find for Dutch Hoag through NYS Historic Newspapers is an August 1951 report of his winning a race at Wellsville Speedway. In May 1952, Hoag was among the 40 racers who opened the season at the Monroe County Fairgrounds speedway (which had been active as a racetrack since at least 1950, when a NASCAR Grand National event took place there) and began that year a string of four consecutive track championships there.

While dominating in Monroe County from 1952 to 1955, Hoag continued competing at Naples Speedway as well as at Bath Speedway, where he won three straight track titles from 1952 to 1954; at Canandaigua Speedway, where he won titles in 1953 and 1954; and at Hemlock Fairgrounds, where he claimed the championship in 1953. Hoag also captured NASCAR New York State Championships in 1953 and 1954 – standing on top of the points as the best weekly racer in the state in those years.

During the 1954 season, Hoag was listed as being from Penn Yan, while reports from previous years noted Naples as his residence. Where exactly he lived in Penn Yan is unclear; the 1956 Penn Yan Directory lists the Hoag family at 93 E. Lake Road, the 1955-1956 Penn Yan Telephone Directly shows Donald Hoag at 318 Liberty St., and the 1956-1957 phone book shows Donald Hoag at Excell’s Trailer Park. The 1951 Penn Yan Directory and the 1957-1958 Penn Yan Telephone Directory – which bookend these other publications, as far as the Yates County History Center collection is concerned – do not list the Hoag family at all.

During much of the time that Hoag was leading the packs at Monroe County, Bath, Canandaigua, Naples, and other speedways, he was sporting a red No. 96 racecar sponsored by the Penn Yan Express trucking company and supported by the Hinson family. Ronald Hinson, whose father Robert operated the company, maintains a website – pennyanexpress.com – dedicated to the history of the company. According to this history, the relationship between Hoag and Penn Yan Express began in 1953 as new V8 engines were beginning to appear at local racetracks. On Friday afternoons during the racing season, the Penn Yan Express trucks would be moved out of the garage and the racecars moved in so they could be readied for that night’s races. Two employees remained at the garage until the race team returned from the racetrack, so the racecars could be repaired and prepared for the next night’s races. And Hoag was a fellow employee to his Penn Yan Express comrades; the 1956 Penn Yan Directory lists him as a truck driver for the company, while his wife, Doris, worked as a clerk there.

In addition to Hoag’s weekly competitions at various area speedways, Penn Yan Express sponsored and supported him in races at Langhorne and at Daytona Beach (when the races took place on the beach surface before the modern superspeedway was built) as well as in one of Hoag’s four Grand National starts, in 1955 at Monroe County. Driving the No. 96 Chevrolet – purchased from Penn Yan’s Jolley Chevrolet – Hoag started fifth and completed 96 laps after breaking a wheel and finishing 17th. It was the second Grand National start for Hoag that year, as he recorded his career-best finish of eighth at Palm Beach Speedway. He had finished 12th at a Grand National event at Monroe County in 1952 and would finish 45th at a NASCAR-sanctioned race at Langhorne in 1957. The year 1955 saw the end of Penn Yan Express’ involvement in auto racing and with Hoag.

After four straight track championships, Hoag stood atop the point standings at Monroe County in July 1956 when he suddenly announced his retirement from auto racing. According to the Williamson newspaper of the time, Hoag “said he’s had enough, and that he needs the time to devote to his family.” Indeed, the next mention of Hoag competing in a race is his substitution for Reiners at Dundee in 1958. Nevertheless, Hoag didn’t stay retired long, as he entered a stock car event at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse on Labor Day in 1958. Hoag continued to race into the 1960s and 1970s, record three championships apiece at Shangri-La Speedway in Owego and Spencer Speedway in Williamson. He also won a couple of Labor Day races at the State Fairgrounds in 1967 and 1968.

In February 1969, at 43 years old, Hoag competed as a “rookie” in the Permatex 300, a race of the Late Model Sportsman series (later called the Busch Series and now called the Xfinity Series) at Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1968 Dodge prepared by B.R. Dewitt, Hoag started fourth and finished second in the 300-mile event. An October 1970 in the Courier Express of Buffalo, about the final race at Langhorne, described Hoag as retired. Still, subsequent years found Hoag competing at Lancaster Speedway, Fulton Speedway, and other tracks. Yet it seems Hoag retired for good at some point in the 1970s, and he operated Dutch’s Service Station in Bath until the mid-1980s.

Hoag spent his later years helping his son, Dean, and his grandson, Alex, build their own successful auto racing careers and carry on the Hoag legacy to three generations. It is estimated Hoag won more than 400 feature races during his own legendary career.

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Ice Racing City Cup - Spike 4.5 mm and Classic - Ice Mile Velsk 2024

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24 hours of Nürburgring really does have everything...bipolar weather, good track, interesting strategies...cars randomly catching on fire for weird reasons...

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Shelby Harthcock: Love

Loving (TV series) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “Loving someone is easy but losing someone is hard.” —Shelby Harthcock.

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24 Hours of Le Mans 1980 🇻🇪 Ernesto Soto - 🇺🇸 Mark Hutchins - 🇺🇸 Pierre Honegger Z+W Enterprises Mazda GTU RX7

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This week on the Daly Dose, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Shoehei Ohtani, Jayden Daniels won the Heisman Trophy, the Los Angeles Lakers won the NBA in-season tournament and the Kansas City Chiefs found a creative way to lose a game! Then, we are joined by author Ray Hartjen to discuss a number of subjects! Ray talks about his book Immaculate: How the Steelers Saved Pittsburgh, and how the Pittsburgh Steelers not only changed their fortunes on the field, but may have actually changed the city of Pittsburgh in the process! We look back at some of the greatest players in Steelers history and some of the favorite teams in the history of the franchise! We reflect on how much the NFL has changed since the 70's and 80’s, and how some of those stars from the past might fare in today’s game! Ray also has a book that is far more personal in nature that could make a perfect gift to pre-order for the holidays! Me, Myself & My Multiple Myeloma: A Behind-the-Scenes Look for Patients, Caregivers & Allies is an intimate and inspiring account where Ray reflects on every step of his battle with cancer. If you know anyone going through difficult times, this is a book that will encourage and embolden any reader! Finally, we preview the book that Ray is currently writing, that will detail the amazing ups and downs of the greatest spectacle in racing, the Indianapolis 500!

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In case you missed it: Berth takes MSA Harry Neitzel Tribute A-main trophy at Dodge County http://dlvr.it/SxjwnW

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From horses to horsepower

By Jonathan Monfiletto

The first time I ever set foot in Yates County – intentionally and knowingly, though I cannot think of a time when, or a reason why, I would have traveled through Yates County before then – was to attend a stock car race at what was then called Black Rock Speedway. At the time, I had a friend-of-a-friend who competed in a late model touring series, and the closest the series was appearing to where I lived at the time was Black Rock Speedway – the four-tenths-of-a-mile clay oval located on Route 14A just a stone’s throw from downtown Dundee.

So it was that I found myself hanging around the pit area and sitting in the grandstands at Black Rock, taking in not only my first race at this particular dirt track but also the prestigious Dutch Hoag National Open Weekend. Despite an event and a track surface that were hampered by rainy weather, I recall being impressed by both the action on the track and the uniqueness of the track itself compared to other dirt tracks I had visited. Even still at the track, I looked forward to my next visit for another race, although I’m chagrined to report that next time hasn’t come yet.

What is now known as Outlaw Speedway recently celebrated its 67th season opener, meaning the Dundee racetrack has hosted stock car racing continuously – except for the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, I presume – since the first time it did so in 1957. Perhaps the research I conducted, and the memories and moments I read about, in the course of putting together this article will inspire me to finally make my return visit to the speedway.

According to a September 2019 article in the Dundee Observer – when the Dundee Area Historical Society, up the street from the racetrack, hosted a program honoring the speedway’s history – what was originally called Dundee Speedway (and has been called at least four different names since) hosted its first stock car race in June 1957 with 1,000 fans in attendance. Penn Yan’s Glenn Reiners – who went on to become a legend at the speedway – won the inaugural 20-lap feature, besting a field of 14 cars. The track was located at the Dundee Fairgrounds, which had previously held horse races and continued to host horse racing, along with stock car racing, throughout the decades.

The first reference to Dundee Speedway that I can find in the Yates County History Center’s digitized newspaper collection is a May 1957 advertisement in the Observer, announcing the opening of the racetrack at the fairgrounds on May 31 and boasting 40 cars taking part in eight races (likely a main feature with a series of qualifying races leading up to it). On August 1, the Observer reported that 1,500 fans witnessed the first-ever championship race at the speedway, with Reiners once again coming out on top in a field of 20 cars. On August 16, the racetrack conducted a push car race for local youngsters and their homemade “hot rods,” as they had the chance to compete on the same track as their heroes. Horses and horsepower shared the slate of events for the Dundee Fair that year, and who else but Reiners won the stock car race held during the fair.

As the racetrack prepared for its second season in May 1958, the Observer reported the inaugural year of stock car racing had drawn the attention of several local enthusiasts, who built cars to compete in the races. With Reiners once again leading the point standings at the speedway, Dundee Speedway announced it would once again host a race for homemade push cars for a soap box derby and also hold a “powder puff” race for women driving local stock cars. Elmira’s Ethel Buchanan, whom the Observer described as “the top woman driver in this area,” was among the female competitors. Newspaper advertisements reveal some of the other special events held that year, such as a 50-lap mid-season championship race, motorcycle races, quarter midget races, late model races, and jalopy races. The speedway once again hosted its championship event during the Dundee Fair. Reiners won the race and the championship.

Ahead of the 1959 season, the Observer carried a profile on Reiners, Dundee Speedway’s two-time and only track champion. At the time, Reiners – who owned a repair shop and bulldozing business away from his auto racing pursuits – was also the track champion at Maple Grove Speedway in Waterloo the previous four seasons. For the coming season, the Yates Stock Car Racing Association – which leased the racetrack from the Dundee Fair Association – announced rule changes geared toward bringing in more competitors, increasing the limit on car models from those made in 1948 and before to those made in 1953 and before and allowing anyone with a valid driver’s license to compete in races, whereas the previous age limit was 21 and older. The rule changes didn’t slow down Reiners at all, as he seemed to either win the race or finish in the top three on the way to his third-straight championship in the speedway’s three years of competition.

However, Reiners seemed absent from competition at Dundee Speedway during the 1960 season. That opened the door for the likes of Hoot Gibson, George Schenck, and Dick Karlnoski to claim checkered flags in the races and a place atop the point standings. It is unclear from newspaper reports who won the track championship that year. Nevertheless, so went the first few years of Dundee Speedway’s existence, and so go the following years and decades of its history. At some point, the racetrack split its competitors into classes of sportsmen – older model cars – and late models – more modern cars. Later, modifieds were added to the slate. Stock car races continued to be a part of the Dundee Fair along with horse races and other competitive events. Stuntman Joie Chitwood also put on exhibitions at the speedway during the fair.

In September 1970, the speedway staged the Richard Karlnoski Memorial stock car race after Karlnoski, a Dundee man and speedway favorite – nicknamed The Flying Polack – died in a traffic crash. The proceeds from the event supported the Karlnoski family, and drivers also donated their prize money to the fund. Local businesses also contributed to the event, and drivers from the other area tracks at which Karlnoski competed – including Chemung, Addison, and Woodhull – joined the Dundee field for the event. It was expected the largest stock race ever held in the speedway’s history.

In March 1971, Dundee Speedway introduced snowmobile racing to its venue, and it continued to host motorcycle racing alongside its slate of stock car races as well. During the 1970s, the speedway also attracted racers from Drivers Independent Race Tracks (DIRT), a sanctioning body and racing series that began earlier in the decade. The speedway marked 1979 as the oldest club-owned racetrack in New York – under the auspices of what was then called the Dundee Stock Car Racing Association – and by joining forces with DIRT to sanction the late model division. Amid a gas crisis that saw a spike in prices both for racing fuel and regular gasoline, and many racetracks shutting down as a result, Dundee Speedway continued to attract 70-plus competitors each Friday night and a capacity crowd to cheer them on.

Entering a new decade, following a series of rainouts in 1979 and track improvements that left the association in debt, it appeared the speedway would close after 23 seasons. However, through off-season fundraisers and volunteer support, the speedway opened as scheduled in 1980. While the track continued operating, at some point its name changed. The Chronicle-Express of May 9, 1985, offers the earliest reference to Dundee Raceway Park that I could find. That appears to be when Steve Wetmore took over ownership and promotion of the speedway from the Dundee Stock Car Racing Association. The following season, the racetrack marked its 30th season and its fourth under sanctioning by DIRT.

Wetmore concluded his run at the helm of the speedway at the end of the 1994 season, as Lin and Cindy Hough, of Bath, and Sam Kelly and Margo Miller, of Dundee, took over the racetrack and renamed it Black Rock Speedway. Dean Hoag, the son of legendary dirt track racer Dutch Hoag, took over the speedway in 2005 but kept the name. Andrew Harpell leased the racetrack from Hoag in 2014 and called it Yates County Speedway, but Hoag regained control the following year and reverted the name to Black Rock Speedway. In 2016, Tyler Siri purchased the racetrack from Hoag and gave the speedway its current name, Outlaw Speedway.

The cars, the drivers, the track, and the times have changed since that first Friday night in 1957. What hasn’t changed is that for the last almost 70 years, the roar of stock cars can be heard from the Dundee racetrack on Friday nights from the late spring through the summer to the early fall.

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